Word: platform
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issue of the day the subject represents a phase in the development of the trend toward socialization of the state, which many people believe will, in retrospect, be regarded as the characteristic movement of our century. At any rate one of the chief planks in the 1928 Socialist platform dealt with this matter and the Republican and Democratic parties both devoted considerable attention to it at their conventions of last year. In view of the unusual complexity of the problem the Liberal Club is particularly fortunate in being able to offer interpretations of its extreme aspects by two so well...
...hold of the official list of 300 bigwigs specially invited by Mr. Hoover to sit on the main platform at the ceremonies on March...
With a Parliamentary election looming for next June, jubilant Laborite candidates prepared, last week, to shout from every platform in England that their Conservative opponents have "gagged" H. R. H. The deplorable process of dragging the Crown into the election was even begun in the House of Commons, when Lieutenant Colonel Charles Kenneth Howard Bury, M. P. [Conservative] insinuated that some* miners prefer living on the dole to work, a chorus of Laborites shouted: "Liar! Sit down! You have insulted the heir to the throne...
...century or more ago, when college presidents were active members of the teaching faculty, giving courses and advising students on a field of study like any professor. Of late, the growing complexity of university organization and administrative details has kept the college heads away from the speaker's platform, except for those occasions met in performance of duty...
...notices appended to the time-table was that "Passengers were not allowed to stand on the platform or put their heads out of the window below Debauch Slough--the corporation not wishing to alarm persons who were not patrons of the road...